Upcoming Events
Third World Congress on Positive Psychology
Los Angeles, CA, June 27-30, 2013
Learn how the “thriving science” is changing the lives of individuals, communities, and institutions around the globe. Presentations, workshops, and poster sessions will feature leading-edge research, as well as applications of positive psychology in a variety of fields – from business to education to medicine.
73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), FL, August 9 - 13, 2013
Theme: Capitalism in Question
The recent economic and financial crises, austerity, and unemployment, and the emergence of many economic, social, and environmental protest movements around the world have put back on the agenda some big questions about the AOM's vision of "inspiring and enabling a better world": What kind of economic system would this better world be built on? Would it be a capitalist one? If so, what kind of capitalism? If not, what are the alternatives?
Notable Past Events
The 2013 International Summit Conference on Compassionate Organizations
Louisville, KY, May 16-18, 2013
Presented in affiliation with "Engaging Compassion" - the visit by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Louisville, Kentucky, May 2013. This is a "working" conference in which Thought Catalysts actively work with conference colleagues to explore the applications, roles, requirements, targeted outcomes, effective practices, polices, and other elements for creating organizational cultures of compassion.
2012 Academy of Management Annual Meeting - The Informal Economy
Boston, MA, August 3-7, 2012
POS at AOM 2012
— There were 42 sessions featuring POS-related papers or discussions.2011 Academy of Management Annual Meeting — West Meets East: Enlightening, Balancing, and Transcending
San Antonio, TX — August 12-16, 2011
POS at AOM 2011
— There were 36 sessions featuring POS-related papers or discussions.IPPA Second World Congress on Positive Psychology
Philadelphia, PA. July 23-26, 2011
Order and Disorder in the Emotional Brain
University of Michigan, 3 p.m. — 5 p.m., Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Leading to Well-Being Conference
George Mason University, April 8, 2011
What Makes Life Worth Living?
Theme Semester, University of Michigan, Fall 2010
2010 Academy of Management Annual Meeting — Dare to Care
Montreal, Canada, August 6-10, 2010
Compassion and Passion in Management Practice and Management Research. POS-Related Sessions.
Fifth European Conference on Positive Psychology
Copenhagen, Denmark. June 23-26, 2010
U-M 2010 Golden Apple Award (AnnArbor.com report)
recipient Chris Peterson gave his ideal last lecture, The First Lecture, on March 9, 2010. Sponsored by Students Honoring Outstanding University Teaching.
Magnetic Forces of POS
The Center for POS hosted its fourth biennial conference December 4-6 2008 in Ann Arbor.
Academy of Management 2009
Nearly 60 sessions touched on POS themes.
